Milk Tray - what happened?!

Always loved milk tray and thought it was just me the chocolate this year in the box tasted old. Less flavoursome and I thought it was my taste buds that had changed. Glad I read this.

An American recipe now I believe.

We don’t eat Cadburys products any more.

An American recipe now I believe. The first time I ate a Hershey Bar I couldn’t believe they thought they could pass it off as anything resembling chocolate!

I may be wrong but i think Cadbury's Flake is still made to the old, pre-takeover recipe. It seems the new greasier formula just won't work with the process needed to make Flake bars well, flaky -- I can certainly believe it. I hope so, anyway. (Flakes are my fave.)

Greyduster

^An American recipe now I believe^. The first time I ate a Hershey Bar I couldn’t believe they thought they could pass it off as anything resembling chocolate!

Me too. Vomit chocolate. Disgusting.

Aldi's chocolate is lovely - their Moser Roth varieties are really nice (especially the truffles), but even the cheap bars of dark, milk and white chocolate are good. I had to do some research for you all. I used them to make fudge to give as gifts this year and everyone raved about it.

We were given a box of milk tray too they were so disappointing, but even worse were the quality street they were truly horrible !

Oh no! I used to love Milk Tray. They used to make a large bar consisting of a variety of their chocolates. It was a massive treat. Sadly gone.
Another of life's disappointments

There has been a call back of milk tray something to do with them tasting of chemicals I think.
I got some handmade chocolate bought it's not very good .

Previous regulations also ensured safety and strict controls on polutants, heavy metals and other possible contamination by chemicals. No such rules now- anything goes for British 'chocolate'

'There is a broad spectrum of legislations that EU food manufacturers have to follow throughout all production processes. The EU has developed standards that ensure food hygiene, animal health and welfare, plant health, and control contamination from external substances.

Safety is maintained even when the production materials come from outside of the EU. Imported goods must meet the same standards and go through the same checks as food produced within the Union.

I like Ritter's Sport - lots of varieties and they all taste good!

Oopsadaisy1

An American recipe now I believe.

We don’t eat Cadburys products any more.

We don’t either, greasy bland and all taste alike.

M&S are ok and also Beech which is a Lancashire firm I think.

Fleurpepper Nothing to do with the EU as Cadbury chocs have been sugary and greasy for a long time now when we were in the EU.

Anyone know what happened to Thorntons toffee? Also all the Thorntons shops?

One Christmas as a child I was given a huge box of Milk Tray with a picture of a thatched cottage on the box. I even shared them!

Wheniwasyourage. If you ever see any yogurt Ritter would you let me know please. I haven’t seen it for years .

Thorntons fell victim to the Covid crisis and closed all 61 of their shops in March 2021, making 600 staff redundant Oreo. Some of their confectionary is still being produced and sold in many
Supermarkets.

No longer a fan of Cadbury’s at all now - greasy or waxy seems an appropriate description.

Oreo

Fleurpepper Nothing to do with the EU as Cadbury chocs have been sugary and greasy for a long time now when we were in the EU.

Well yes, but it has got much much worse recently- as most above say. The proportion of palm oil has increased hugely.

My daughter discovered Friary chocolates. I can only speak for the dark chocolate but it’s yummy. I prefer it to Hotel C. As for Cadbury chocolate it’s awful. It all changed when it was sold off. I’d rather pay more for less and eat beautiful tasting chocolate.

Happy New Year to all

I had a gift of a small box of Cadbury Milk Tray there were 7 chocolates in the box. Out of the 7 l ate 3 the other 4 were salted caramel and fudge. What a waste of money. Whatever happened to Diary Box? But as you say chocolate is nothing like it used to taste.

American ersatz recipes - someone else said - they have been taken over by Mondelez, Cadbury is a name only now. The Family as were have no control and it shows. There have been complaints and boxes withdrawn from sale. I'd be tempted to 'give feedback' on their website.

Bought Nestle Dairy Box. Not impressed. Best chocolates to date are the ones in a Tesco box. Inexpensive too.

Thanks Georgesgran👍🏻

Not that keen on chocolate apart from those with mint in them but husband js a chocoholic and he has remarked on how the usual suspects don't taste the same. I always buy a box of Lindt for part of his Xmas present and at the moment he is happily tucking in without a word of complaint. I wish they wouldn't mess with the tried and tested formulas of things as they onky lose customers in the long term.

Oh thank you so much for all your comments, you’ve reassured me that I’m not losing my sense of taste but isn’t it sad? The taste of Cadbury’s was always so marvellous, wasn’t it?